Re: 4. There is a dystopian novel by L. P. Hartley called "Facial Justice". I've never had a chance to read it, but it looks fascinating. In the novel, the future regime mandates that both beautiful and ugly faces be modified to fit some common-denominator average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_(1957_film) I saw this in graduate school ( so many years ago). !Kung hunters follow a wounded giraffe for 3 days. It sucks to be prey.
Re: 4. There is a dystopian novel by L. P. Hartley called "Facial Justice". I've never had a chance to read it, but it looks fascinating. In the novel, the future regime mandates that both beautiful and ugly faces be modified to fit some common-denominator average.
A fun idea to program: search/RNG for three people that overlap, optimized for childhood, adolescents, young adulthood, or late adulthood.